F. Ernest Jackson ARA, Study of Archimandrite Nicholas, c. 1940.
Pen and ink on wove paper. 183 mm x 98 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Study of Archimandrite Nicholas, c. 1940
F. Ernest Jackson ARA (1872 - 1945)
RA Collection: Art
A pen and ink drawing of Archimandrite Nicholas and three studies of hands. The sitter is probably Nicholas Gibbes (1876-1963), also known as Nikolai and born Charles Sydney Gibbes. He was born in Rotherham and studied at Cambridge University before becoming tutor to Tsar Nicholas II's children from 1908-1917. After the family were killed he fled to China and later returned to England, becaming a priest in the Russian Orthodox church in 1934.
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